Now a new, 700-page, collection titled Muheet-ul-Amsaal: Kahavaton Aur Maqoolon ka Majmoo’a has just come out. Compiled by Wasiullah Khokhar and published by Lahore’s Daarun Navaadir, it is the ...

Are dictionaries going the way of dodos, pocket calculators and civil discourse? Some dictionaries are still printed but, increasingly, the reference books have moved online. And, as Stefan Fatsis ...

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”Guilty by Definition,” By Susie Dent. Publisher: Sourcebooks. 384 pages. $27.99.

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The Anti-Defamation League has removed an online resource guide about extremism, one day after Elon Musk escalated a wave of right-wing criticism against the group by criticizing an entry. The ...

Batman toys are commonplace, but original items in mint condition from the early days of the show can sometimes be worth five figures - or more.

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The real debate isn’t whether internet slang counts as “proper English”, but which words get preserved and which are left to vanish, says NUS Centre for Language Studies’ Daniel Chan.